Guyana News

Troy Glasgow, an East Ruimveldt man who was charged with committing two knife-point robberies, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail after being found guilty of the crimes.

A man was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he was charged with sexual assault.

The Guyana Government today rejected a purported list of police promotions by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

The Ministry of Health today said that as of June 27, 2021, four more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire SC this afternoon ruled that there is nothing unlawful in the Police Service Commission considering pending disciplinary matters as a bar to police promotions.

Kareem Powley, 20, of  Tucville, North East La Penitence died last night after a motorbike accident on Mandela Avenue.

A twenty-six-year-old woman of Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara died last night after she was beaten and stabbed by a man she shares a relationship with.

The theft of fuel appeared to be behind the deaths of three men in an explosion at a wharf at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara on Saturday as several laden jars were found in the trunk of a car belonging to one of the deceased The deceased have since been identified as sixty-year-old boat captain of Beehive, Essequibo, Seepersaud Persaud; twenty-nine-year-old sailor Damion Dias of Sarah Johanna, Region Four and White Water, Region One and forty-year-old sailor, Mark Mangal of Riverstown, Essequibo Coast.

A clause in government’s environmental permit for the upcoming Payara Well may give ExxonMobil carte blanche to flare continuously for free thus dimming any hope of Guyana collecting on the US$30 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2 eq) fine it has imposed for flaring over 60 days, former EPA Director Dr.

Decriminalising homosexuality here is a critical first step in protecting the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons and facilitating fairness and equality before the law, according to Resident Co-ordinator, United Nations Guyana, Mikiko Tanaka.

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn has ordered a probe of the dragging of a detainee on the floor at the Wales Police Station on Friday.

A twenty-two-year-old pillion rider died yesterday following a collision on Saturday night between the motorcycle she was on and a car at the intersection of Brickdam and Brummel Place.

The USAID Eastern and Southern Caribbean Mission and the Guyana Economic Development Trust (GEDT) have launched an incubator and accelerator for Guyanese agro-processors.

The US$400,000 Chicken ‘n’ Burger Delight restaurant was declared open at Leonora, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Saturday.

President Irfaan Ali and a delegation virtually attended the Eleventh Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) on Friday, where he provided an update on the Special Ministerial Taskforce (MTF) on Food Production and Food Security.

After weeks of being flooded, water has completely receded from communities in the Pomeroon River and the Region Two Council is currently verifying and assessing the damage left behind, Chairman Vilma Da Silva said.

A fifty-year-old Brazilian national was on Saturday robbed of a quantity of gold by three identifiable Venezuelan suspects he had employed last week.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that there were 103 new cases of COVID-19 but no further deaths were recorded.

Handed two life sentences back in May for the killing of two men whom he shot, Orpheus Johnson has lodged an appeal with the Guyana Court of Appeal in which he complains that the sentences are severe.

The Embassy of the Sovereign Military Hospitalier Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta on June 19th engaged in another medical outreach to Port Kaituma as part of its efforts to reach out to the vulnerable in our society.